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Independent Inquiry Committees Report on the U.N.

NY Sun Editorial
No Pleasant Reading

Sen. Coleman Statement re. Volcker Report

U.N. follies
by Clifford D. May

Iraq The Model
It's Hard To Believe The Terrorists Can Sink Any Lower, But...

Pravda
Mikhail Gorbachev deeply disappointed in Putin

W. Times
Women in combat ban again at issue
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee has ordered an investigation into whether transformed Army divisions are violating the Pentagon rule against sex-integrated support units embedding with land combat battalions.

About That Hug...
by John Podhoretz

One on one with the president
by Cal Thomas
Responding to criticism from some Democrats over his Iraq policy and their calls to begin an immediate troop withdrawal, President Bush told me in a one-on-one Oval Office interview the day before his State of the Union address that his critics have things out of order.

Ripples afar
by James Lileks
After the succesful elections in Afghanistan and Iraq, the reactionary is left in a quandary.

W. Times Editorial
CNN's line of fire

Dean for DNC chairman? Yeeaarrgghh!
by Jeff Jacoby
The Democratic National Committee won't officially elect its next chairman until Feb. 12, so Howard Dean doesn't have the job wrapped up just yet.

USA Today
Some Dems nervous as Dean resurges

New Republic
The Outsiders: How Dean Won
by Ryan Lizza
An open process with all the trappings of a modern political campaign--including a seven-candidate field, fund-raising, regional debates, and smear campaigns in the press--is unprecedented in the party's history. To many Washington Democrats watching the circus-like contest from afar, it has been an embarrassment. "I think it's pathetic," says James Carville. "It's so indicative of the Democratic Party. Now we're just playing into every stereotype: We're weak, disorganized, flopping around. ... Somebody should have fixed this damn thing in November. I wish someone would have taken charge and three or four people would have gotten together in a smoke-filled room. ... They're not running for president! They are running for party chair. This is supposed to be a rigged deal. You think the Republicans would do it this way?"

Howard Dean and the Democrats
by Andrew E. Busch

A Suicidal Selection
With Dean as party chairman, the Democrats wouldn't need enemies.
by Jonathan Chait, senior editor of The New Republic

Translation of Democratic response to President's SOTU speech
by David Limbaugh
One integral theme emerged from the Democratic response to President Bush's State of the Union address: the party's underestimation of the American people to solve their own problems and to see through liberal rhetoric.

W. Post
The Moment That America Embraced

The angry left rides again
Janeane Garofalo, compares the Republican congressmen showing their ink-dipped fingers during the SOTU to a Nazi salute.

Bush Has a Vision. The Democrats Barely Register
by James Pinkerton

A President Not Afraid to Lead
by Ralph Peters

Larry King Transcript
Interview with Donald Rumsfeld

AP
Rumsfeld Says He Offered to Resign Twice

A supply-side State of the Union
by Larry Kudlow
President Bush was strong and steadfast as he delivered his State of the Union plans to fiscally restructure the economy and press ahead with his foreign-policy vision of democratization and freedom.

Moyers and the party of gloom
by Mona Charen
Speaking at Harvard recently, Bill Moyers, a preacher in the Church of Unreconstructed Liberalism, painstakingly constructed a straw man and then bashed it to pieces.

Moving the goalposts on Iraq
by Jonah Goldberg
All of the sophisticates and cynics insisted that having elections would be a bloody fool's errand.

An Honest Portrait of Fidel
The new PBS biography of Castro is fair, balanced, and unafraid.
by Duncan Currie

The Global Throng
Why the world’s elites gnash their teeth.
by Victor Davis Hanson

Normal Service Resumed
The George Bush the nation re-elected is back.
by Peggy Noonan

WSJ Editorial
Reform at Home
Today's progressive agenda is public "trust" busting.

The Propaganda President
George W. Bush does his best Kim Jong-il.
By Jack Shafer

The Liberal Beast Meets Mr. Right
by Tony Blankley

A Gesture With a Point
Iraqis give terrorists the finger.
by Tunku Varadarajan

NY Times
Rice Says U.S. Attack on Iran 'Not on the Agenda'

Which Foreign Policy?
By David Ignatius

Free to Dance in Iraq
By Charles Krauthammer

W. Post
In Netherlands, Anti-Islamic Polemic Comes With a Price

Bush's Social Security Speech in North Dakota

The State of George W. Bush
by David Corn, The Nation

Reuters
Iran's Supreme Leader Hits Back at Bush Speech
Iran's Supreme Leader Thursday hit back at President Bush's accusations against the Islamic state and said he would fail like his four predecessors to topple Tehran's clerical leadership.

AP
Marine General Counseled for Comments
"Actually it’s quite fun to fight ’em, you know. It’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you, I like brawling," said Mattis. "You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn’t wear a veil," Mattis said during a panel discussion. "You know, guys like that ain’t got no manhood left anyway. So it’s a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them."

W. Post
Watergate Papers Go Public
University of Texas to Unveil Woodward-Bernstein Collection

Wired
The Painful Truth
The Iraq war is a new kind of hell. There are more survivors among the wounded -- but more maimed and shattered limbs than ever. A revolution in battlefield medicine is helping them conquer the pain.

Reuters
Study Finds Religious Polarization in U.S. Voters

Wired
Canadians Fight for Privacy
A government decision to outsource health records to a company in the states has Canadians worried that sensitive information will wind up in the hands of the U.S. government.